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Niesha

The girl's name Niesha has been in the national records since 1969, with 2,183 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2018. About 2,100 Nieshas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Niesha

By the numbers

Total US births
2,183
Estimated living today
2,100
Median age today
37
Peak year
1991
Best rank
1,090th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1969

How old the living Nieshas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,183 babies given the name since 1969, about 2,100 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Niesha is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Niesha is most concentrated in Louisiana (3.6×), New York (2.4×), North Carolina (2.1×), Illinois (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1991

The most popular girls’ names the year Niesha peaked:

All the names of 1991

Niesha elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Niesha 30 3,548th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.